LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor James Garner, best known for his prime-time television roles as the wisecracking frontier gambler on "“Maverick" and as an ex-con turned private eye on "“The Rockford Files", has died at age 86, Los Angeles police confirmed early on Sunday.

I don't think I ever saw him in anything besides The Rockford Files and The Notebook, but he was superb in the former as the streetwise ex-con turned private-eye.